We jest, but seriously. How cool that once again, ABC's ''All My Children'' is breaking ground. This week the soap will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman.
And she’ll be played by awesome actor, Jeffrey Carlson (who appeared in Boy George/Rosie O’Donnell’s musical “Taboo”).
The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian character Bianca and much drama ensues. The storyline begins with Thursday's episode of the daytime drama.
There have been a handful of post-surgical transgender characters in television shows, including a college professor in the 2001 prime-time CBS series ''The Education of Max Bickford'' and a model in the short-lived ABC soap opera ''The City'' in 1996, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Showtime's ''The L Word'' currently features a character changing from a woman into a man.
''All My Children'' was looking for something new, and knows its audience is always interested in anything to do with sexuality, said Julie Hanan Carruthers, the show's executive producer.
''After 36 years, you start rehashing,'' she said. ''It's inevitable. We didn't want to fall back on the baby-switch story again.''


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